Improvement in stove-grates



G. R. M00 RE.

Stove-Grates.

Patented Dec. 9,1873.

.j/weizail UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOEo GEORGE It. MOORE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE-GRATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,360, dated December 9, 1873; application filed May 9, 1873.

To all 'whom it may concern- Be it known that I, GEO. It. MOORE, ofthe city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Stove and Heater Grate-Hangings, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide facilities for operating stove and other grates for coal-fires. It relates to the grate-hangin gs, to provide for a vert-ical motion to be given to the grate 5 to means of tipping the grate 5 and to the two combined.

It is well known that combustion is coinpleted rst in the lower portion of a mass of coal in process of combustion in all ordinary fire-chambers, and from the mass of ash and cinder left-the refuse of combustion-removals must frequently be made to provide room for fresh supplies of coal to perpetuate the fire.

The drawing is a perspective :View of a skele ton base of an ordinary stove containing my iinprovemei'lts.

A is the grate. It is hung on journals a a, and has a descending` arm, B, into which is jointed a draw-rod, C, in the use ot' which the grate is conveniently tipped back and forth upon its journals. D D are horizontal levers, with their fulcrums at (l d, so that the grate, being sustain ed at a distance from the fulcrums ot' the levers, may receive nearly a vertical motion when the said levers are operated, either by the rod E or any equivalent.

before tilting it is that space is thus obtained for a free movement, and, by a rapid tilting` motion, the grate will clear itself until the mass above is reduced as much as may be desired, by which it is cleared of ashes and cinders.

I claim- 1. The grate A, hanging upon and in co1nbination with the horizontal lever D, extendin around it and across the ash-pit, atlording it a free space for revolving or tipping', and the rod E for raising and lowering the grate at will, substantial] y as and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. The combination of the grate A, arm B, and rod C with the levers D D and rod E.

GEO. R. MOORE.

'Vitnesses:

N. K. ELLswoRTn, C. F. BROWN.' 

